Magnetoreception has been demonstrated in dogs for the first time, with the surprising discovery that under stable and calm magnetic field conditions, they align themselves upon a north-south geomagnetic axis during defecation.

A food box cognitive challenge was presented to goats, who were not only able to learn to complete the task within 12 attempts, but also could recall this information when retested 10 months later. This shows that goats are much more intelligent than previously thought and have excellent long term memory.

Male black widow spiders produce low amplitude vibrations by abdominal tremulation, in order to distinguish them from potential prey to females. These 'whispers' signal to the females during courtship that the males are not a prey item, caught in the web, and thus they avoid a fatal attack.

Elephants’ social skills are vital to their survival, helping them to live as part of a group. However, African Elephants lose these vital skills as a result of human disturbances and elephants that have suffered traumatic events, separation from family members and/ or translocations have a decreased ability to distinguish callers on the basis of familiarity or age-related cues.